Brian C. Anderson [39 titles]

1. A Priest in Full
   Father Richard John Neuhaus, R.I.P.
   9 January 2009
2. A True Humanist
   Myron Magnet wins the National Humanities Medal.
   17 November 2008
3. Dead Zone of the Human Spirit
   Martin Amis looks unflinchingly at Islamic terror.
   18 April 2008
4. Hands Off the Net
   Congress wisely resists the urge to regulate cyberspace.
   28 June 2006
5. Air America Deflates
   The “progressive” radio network isn’t long for this world.
   29 April 2006
6. The Plot to Shush Rush and O’Reilly
   Talk radio, cable news, and the blogosphere freed U.S. political discourse. The Left wants to rein it in again.
   Winter 2006
7. Conservatives in Hollywood?!
   It was hard to parody Hollywood’s loony limousine liberalism this summer.
   Autumn 2005
8. In with the New
   The liberal media’s power continues to shrink, as the the new media’s grows.
   Spring 2005
9. On Campus, Conservatives Talk Back
   The liberal stranglehold on academe is starting to slip.
   Winter 2005
10. We Don’t Need Car Alarms
    Why won't Mayor Bloomberg ban the Number One noise pollutant?
    Autumn 2004
11. Spinning the Economy Down
    For the liberal media, a GOP president's economy is always crummy.
    Autumn 2004
12. If Not Vouchers?
    Why scholarship tax credits may be the way to go for the school-choice movement.
    Spring 2004
13. Another Victory for the New Conservative Media
    More evidence that the Left’s monopoly on opinion is over.
    5 November 2003
14. A Holy Mess
    My wife and I have sent our five-year-old son to kindergarten at the small Catholic school in our Westchester town for the reasons you’d expect: we’re Catholic.
    Autumn 2003
15. We’re Not Losing the Culture Wars Anymore
    Why conservative ideas are everywhere.
    Autumn 2003
16. Silence of the Alarms
    New York may be the first city in the nation to ban car alarms. It’s high time.
    10 July 2003
17. Schumerism
    The New York senator’s view that judicial selection should be raw power politics is wrong and destructive.
    Summer 2003
18. Silence of the Alarms
    New York may be the first city in the nation to ban car alarms. It’s high time.
    Summer 2003
19. Schumerism
    The New York senator’s view that there’s no difference between law and politics is at the heart of the judicial crisis.
    21 May 2003
20. Why the Battle for the Court Will Be Nasty
    For 50 years, the Supremes decreed the society the Left envisioned. No wonder liberals will do whatever it takes to keep control of the high court.
    Summer 2002
21. Let’s Ban Car Alarms
    These infernal gadgets shatter urban civility, while doing not a nickel’s worth of good.
    Winter 2002
22. The Twin Towers Project: A Cautionary Tale
    The building of the World Trade Center showed what happens when pols and bureaucrats, rather than the market, control redevelopment.
    Autumn 2001
23. Flat-Earth Textbooks
    Middle schools are using science textbooks riddled with errors.
    Spring 2001
24. Illiberal Liberalism
    Liberals used to be the staunchest advocates of reasoned, civil debate. No more. Now it’s argument by name-calling.
    Spring 2001
25. The Bishops Err on Crime
    The U.S. Catholic Bishops' new statement on crime is part of the problem.
    Winter 2001
26. An A for Home Schooling
    It’s giving 2 million kids a good education, sound values, and a rich family life. If unaccredited parents can do it, why can’t the public schools?
    Summer 2000
27. Who’s the Deviant?
    The American Psychiatric Association considers whether anyone who disagrees with its rosy view of homosexuality is nuts.
    Summer 2000
28. Bring Back Sportsmanship
    Sports once celebrated aggression civilized by rules. Now, anything goes.
    Spring 2000
29. How Catholic Charities Lost Its Soul
    You don’t have to be a believer to understand that religious values can uplift the poor. Too bad Catholic Charities USA has lost confidence in the power of those values and has embraced the welfare-state faith.
    Winter 2000
30. Good Cops
    The Bureau of Justice Statistics recently surveyed residents of 12 big American cities and found the vast majority of them satisfied with their police services.
    Autumn 1999
31. Spendthrift States
    Have we entered a post-welfare-state era? The Reason Public Policy Institute seems to think so.
    Summer 1999
32. Mugged By Reality
    Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson's 1987 book, The Truly Disadvantaged, blamed the existence of the underclass on economics, not dysfunctional cultural values.
    Summer 1999
33. Whitman Wimps Out
    Early in March, New Jersey's governor Christine Todd Whitman fired her state police chief, Col. Carl Williams Jr., for 'insensitivity.'
    Spring 1999
34. Scared of Pit Bulls? You’d Better Be!
    Bred for violence, these dogs can wreck a neighborhood’s quality of life as surely as prostitutes or drug dealers.
    Spring 1999
35. How 211 Nobodies Strangle New York
    For 25 years, New York’s antidemocratic Legislature has been hampering the city’s prosperity and quality of life.
    Winter 1999
36. Willie Brown Shows How Not to Run a City
    By jettisoning the new urban wisdom, Mayor Brown is making San Francisco uglier, more dangerous, and financially shaky.
    Autumn 1998
37. No Bang for the Buck
    We've heard the story how many times now? Just give us more money and more teachers and better facilities, the public school teachers' unions plead, and decades of educational failure will turn around.
    Spring 1998
38. Candy from Babies
    The New York Public Interest Research Group, one of 23 state-advocacy organizations operating under the umbrella of the Ralph Nader-inspired United States Public Interest Group, receives nearly $600,000 of its $3 million annual budget from CUNY student fees.
    Winter 1998
39. Trick or Treat?
    Our plan did not originally include moving to the Bronx.
    Winter 1998

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